Chapter 2920 The Power of a Name

Chapter 2919 The power of names

"Miss Metz, in that memory, were you living here as a student or a teacher?"

The Gray Wolf Witch also asked. Although everyone didn't like her very much because of her race at first, they now get along very well.

Miss Metz thought for a moment:

"It's hard to describe. Sometimes I'm a teacher and sometimes I'm a student. I remember I used to stand on the podium and teach, and the subject of my lecture was divination, so I was very familiar with the tower; but sometimes I was sitting on a cushion. The students who were listening to the old professor’s lecture were still holding notebooks in their hands.”

The green dragon maid, who was worried, said casually:

"Maybe there's just something wrong with the order of memory. You studied here, and after graduation you stayed here to continue teaching according to the tradition of the Order."

Miss Metz nodded slowly and hesitated before asking:

"Do you think I'm really a normal person?"

No one answered this question.

Except for Miss Metz herself, Emilia was the only one here who hadn't heard Shade say that he thought there was something wrong with this witch, so the simple elf asked:

"Do you think you're a ghost?"

The witch nodded and looked at her hands holding the rice bowl:

"Or maybe there is another soul in my body, and she guided me here."

No one else knew what to say, so Shade comforted him:

"When we see that god, you can ask him for help. God will love and protect his believers."

He immediately changed the topic:

"Speaking of which, since you have entered this tower, why don't you go to the highest level but camp on the penultimate level?"

"The door to the top floor is locked. You need a key and the incantation found on the stone tablet last time to open it."

Miss Metz replied:

"Like other places, the door cannot be broken down by force here. I only remember that there should be a key, but I don't know where it is. Probably, it is on the person who finally left the academy and left the stone monument."

"I have the power to open locks. I can give it a try later."

Shade said, patting little Mia on the head. Because Amelia huddled next to Shade, it was inconvenient for the cat to lie on Shade's lap. It was now lying on a soft cushion by the fire, and the kind-hearted Miss Wilder also prepared food for it.

"So are you ready to teach us what you have to teach us?"

Shade asked again, and this time the human witch nodded and gave a definite answer:

"It's ready."

During the boring and chaotic time when Shade was away, Iluna had taught everyone about the power of the sun. Even Emilia learned from Iluna what Shade had seen in the Temple of Order. The magical spell used by Iluna [Sunshine].

This is a thaumaturgy that allows strong sunlight to appear in the field to kill evil forces in a wide range. Although Emilia has learned it, the power is obviously not comparable to the thaumaturgy released by Iluna.

In addition to learning power from Iluna, Emilia also learned power from the Gray Wolf Witch and the Green Dragon Witch. Although she failed to learn the transformation technique of turning into a wolf or a dragon, she did learn the thaumaturgy - [Wolf Eyes] and the thaumaturgy - [Sweetener].

The former can enhance her eyesight, but considering that pure-blooded high elves have the talent of [dark vision], the greatest significance of this thaumaturgy is to enhance long-sightedness; while the latter allows Emilia to have the ability to make anything The ability to sweeten.

This is different from Shade's [Candy Making]. He turns food into candy. In essence, the food has been changed. Emilia, on the other hand, makes everything sweet, adding a new flavor without changing the essence of the object.

In other words, she can even make a stone on the ground have a sweet taste, but the stone is still a stone.

Although neither of these two magic tricks seemed to have much effect, Emilia herself liked them very much.

Although Shade had fifty minutes this time, he couldn't waste it too much, so everyone ate quickly. As for where the god will be this time, Shade thinks there is no need to look for it. Since the door upstairs cannot be opened, the possibility of the god being at the top of the tower is almost 100%.

After eating, he got up and prepared to use thaumaturgy to open the door. Miss Wilder, Miss Bister, and Emilia were collecting the dishes downstairs. Because the stairs were narrow, only Miss Metz and Iluna followed Shade up. Upstairs.

At the end of the stairs was the door. Shade first recited the incantation based on what Miss Metz said, so the door that originally had no keyhole had a keyhole. Then he pressed his finger on the keyhole:

"Key to the door!"

Turning his fingers, there was a clear sound of the door lock opening.

Shade was very surprised:

"So simple?"

“Isn’t it better to be simple?”

Iluna asked, Shade shook his head:

"The difficulty of opening this door is similar to that of opening the door of an ordinary person's house. In such a tightly protected room, is the lock just an ordinary lock? I feel like I can break this lock open even with a piece of iron wire. "

In any case, the door did open, but Shade held the door handle and had no intention of pushing the door open. You can't be too cautious in such a weird place. Besides, the slate that Miss Metz brought with her didn't shine, so there was no reason for him to go behind the door:

"My [Door Key] is not omnipotent. I have thought about it a long time ago. If a door is opened in two ways, it will lead to different places. Then what will happen when I use the [Door Key] to open the door? It's hard to say where it will lead. I have a bad feeling that this door can never be opened like this. I think we still need to find the key."

"But where will the key be? Are we going to explore outside?"

Miss Metz asked, but Iluna had a different idea:

"Since the last person who left here wrote the incantation to open the door on the stone tablet, maybe there are clues to the key there. How about we smash the stone tablet, maybe the key is inside."

But Shade shook his head. He motioned for the two of them to follow him downstairs and back to the camp on the second-to-last floor, and then asked:

"Aside from the materials and daily necessities I brought, what did everyone bring when they came?"

Iluna was accidentally brought here by a relic, and she didn't have many things on her at the time; Emilia had her own small satchel, but nothing else; the gray wolf and the green dragon both came here with a plan. Want to learn something, so both of them have their own baggage.

As for Miss Los Metz, she was the first person to appear here, and it was she who saved Miss Bister and Miss Wilder, so everyone really didn’t know what her luggage contained. She also claimed that her luggage I lost most of it long before I met anyone.

Girl Gray Wolf, who seemed to be very good at organizing things, quickly divided everyone's things, but after everyone claimed their belongings, there was actually a dark brown leather handbag left by the campfire. It has a long flap and buckle and looks sturdy and durable.

No one was impressed by this schoolbag, so after asking for everyone's opinions, Shade opened it and took out all the items inside:

"Pencil, eraser, dip pen, ink, notebook, book, paper, key. Found the key!"

Shade breathed a sigh of relief and showed the shiny silver key to everyone. As for the notebooks that might indicate the identity of the owner of the schoolbag, he did not open it, but put everything back as it was:

"Okay, now that you have the key, you can open the door."

Everyone hesitated to speak, but they all guessed what was going on. Miss Metz pursed her lips and looked at the key. When Shade looked at her, she nodded slightly:

"I understand, then let's go."

This time, the stone slabs that were put aside automatically flew up, and dots of golden light pointed in the direction of the stairs. Shade took Miss Metz and Iluna to the end of the stairs again. The size of the small silver key matched the keyhole. After turning it gently, the surface of the black iron-colored door was revealed by the old god [Black Robe]. The holy symbol of the Lord] was depicted.

"It's right this time."

Just as Shade was about to open the door, Miss Metz grabbed his hand again. Her expression could even be said to be a little panicked:

"I'm real, right?"

"Of course you are real."

Iluna on the side answered for Shade, and then pulled away Miss Metz's hand:

"Okay, Shade, open the door."

The door is pushed inward, and the interior is the same as downstairs, except that all the furnishings here still remain in the same state as when the last person locked the door and left, as if the passage of time and the collapse of this place have no impact on this place. Layers have no effect.

A floating blackboard is suspended on the left side of the door, and dozens of cushions are placed on the ground facing the blackboard. And the god in black robes was standing in front of the blackboard waiting for them.

Iluna stood next to Shade, not hiding like the werewolf and green dragon before. It was not the first time she saw a god, and this was a good god, so there was no need to hide.

As for Miss Metz, she put her right hand on her left shoulder and bowed forward, her voice trembling:

"My lord."

The black-robed god responded to them with a smile, and the stone slab floated towards him and was branded with the last holy symbol:

"Everyone has doubts. I will wait for you here. After the ceremony, let's come here together."

"Okay, we'll get there asap."

Shade nodded to the god, then took the floating stone slab and gave it to Miss Metz, then led the two of them back to the stairs. The door closed, and Iluna breathed a sigh of relief, then became excited again:

"It's finally over, isn't it? And we can also listen to the gods' lectures, which will be very interesting."

Shade was also very happy that everything went well. The last step of the ceremony was for Miss Metz to finish teaching. However, now that Miss Metz looked uneasy, Shade was a little worried about her mental state.

"Here, have a cup of tea. Drinking tea always makes people happy."

After returning downstairs again, Miss Wilder handed Miss Metz the tea cup. After everyone sat down, the girl holding the tea cup calmed down a little and looked up at the people who were watching her with concern:

"No matter who I am, my lord's ritual must be completed. I come from my lord's sect, and most of what I know and learn is the power related to the inheritance of knowledge. Although our sect does not pursue powerful power, We are not a weak group. We like to use magic to ensure the spread of knowledge, but we must use strength to protect those who spread knowledge.

Most of the magic recorded in "The Blessing of Books" is the magic of our Lord. The most powerful offensive magic is [Knowledge Granting], which shares the filthy and dangerous knowledge you master with the enemy, polluting their spirits and damaging their souls; the most effective defensive magic is [The Blessing of Books]. The strength of defense is determined by the number of books you have read and the amount of knowledge you have mastered. It can quickly improve the effect of this magic with the basic spell [Quick Reading].

However, I will not teach you these two powerful magics this time. We don't have that much time. "

After letting everyone have a basic understanding of the magic of the [Lord of the Black Robe] cult, Miss Metz tore off a piece of paper from the notebook and distributed it to everyone, including Emilia:

"Words are power-this is the origin of most of the magic I master. The highest level of the cult's magic even allows us to directly use spells that we have never learned while holding the information.

But this is also not our focus today. It is too difficult to let everyone learn to use the power of knowledge and words in a short time. But there is only one type of text that is most familiar to everyone and is most likely to be used directly. "

"Our own names!"

The Gray Wolf Witch said immediately, and Miss Metz nodded and took the lead in writing her own name on the paper:

"Names represent ourselves. Whether it is when we are called by our names, we immediately realize that we are being called, or when we sign, it means that we agree with the content of the document. This can reflect the role of names."

She showed everyone the paper she signed:

"Therefore, names, especially names written by ourselves, can be equivalent to ourselves to a certain extent. The magic I am going to teach you comes from this, but this is not a specific magic. What you can learn from my teachings is entirely up to you.

Now, please write your own name on the paper. Remember to use your full name, and it is your real name, not a nickname. "

"What text do you want to use? "

Emilia raised her hand and asked, as if she was asking a question in class. Miss Metz was particularly friendly to the underage girl and spoke gently:

"Miss Sienod, you can use the characters you most often write your name in. In your era, did the academy of St. Byrons require the use of the common language of mankind?"

The pointy-eared elf then answered:

"Modern Elvish is also OK. Elvish is a must-have spell for many modern magic spells, so everyone understands it. "

The two of them were communicating on the side, and Iluna didn't have to worry about what to use. She would of course use the common language of Draerion. As for the gray wolf and the green dragon, they didn't have to hesitate.

But this was a problem for Shad, because the name of the outsider was not "Shad Sulen Hamilton" but "Shad", and the characters he used most often to write his name were not in Draerion, but in his hometown's native language.

Just looking at the paper in front of him, after a moment's hesitation, he still wrote "Shad Sulen Hamilton".

[Why not your real name?]

"If I still want to go back, I will probably use this name, but now I have decided to stay. And the name is not only a personal cognition, but also the cognition of others to oneself. Now everyone in this world has a new name for me. Last week, didn't Ajelina say that Shad is Sulen? I am Shad Sulen Hamilton. "

The "she" beside my ear smiled gently, and after making sure that everyone had finished writing, Miss Metz took out the ritual materials that she asked Shade to prepare in advance. Because there were enough materials this time, she did not just teach everyone to meditate, but actually drew the ritual array, but drew it on the papers with names written on them.

The ink used to draw the ritual array was added with everyone's blood, and the pen used was the "wolf hair pen" sponsored by Miss Bister.

"Meow~"

When Shade took the pen, Mia, who was transformed by Shade, immediately came up, sniffed it, and then shouted at the gray wolf girl. The latter smiled happily, probably thinking that the cat wanted to be friends with her. .

After the ritual array was painted, everyone followed Miss Metz's technique and folded their own papers into the shape of stars. Then they pressed it on their foreheads, burned it to ashes, dissolved the ashes in the potion she simply prepared and drank it.

This time the cat did not rush to drink it, and even seemed to want to stop Shade from drinking it. And the potion soaked in ashes was indeed not tasty at all. After frowning and swallowing it, Shade immediately concentrated his mind as Miss Metz asked, calling his name thirteen times in a row in his heart, and finally closed his eyes and meditated on his appearance in his mind.

"When I go back, I will try again with the name 'Shade'."

He thought to himself, and his current appearance quickly took shape in his mind. This time it was unusually smooth. Almost at the moment when his appearance was completely formed in his mind, the spirit and elements were activated, and a new power was born.

[Stranger, you sensed "enlightenment". ]

[Stranger, magic-"treasures" sublimated. ]

[Choose an inanimate common object as the selected object, and with the caster's greed and love for the object, the object will gain extraordinary power based on its own function and shape; engrave or write your name on objects including but not limited to machinery/alchemical items/relics, and the function of the object can only be used by you. ]

[Note that the above two effects can exist on the same object at the same time, and the strength of both effects will be enhanced in this case; the number of objects with the two effects of this magic at the same time has changed from "1" to unlimited, but using the effect will reduce the upper limit of the spirit, and erasing the effect will restore the upper limit of the spirit. ]